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What in the World?

May 13, 2012 | by The Hardest Question

So are we in the world, or are we not of the world?

by Danielle Shroyer

Gospel Reading: John 17:6-19

For Sunday, May 20, 2012: Year B—Easter 7

If you’ve ever read a commentary on John, you’ve...

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All You Need Is Love? Maybe.

May 6, 2012 | by The Hardest Question

Joy on Miracle Grow.

by Jodi-Renee Adams

Gospel Reading: John 15.9-17

For Sunday, May 23, Year B − Easter 6

In one of the most familiar monologues given by Christ, John uncorks images of joy-giving...

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The Burden of a Not-So-Burdensome Commandment

May 6, 2012 | by The Hardest Question

Living Out Love In the Real World.

by Jodi-Renee Adams

Epistle Reading: 1 John 5.1-6

For Sunday, May 23, Year B − Easter 6

John insists in a kind of circular argument that if you are a child of GOD...

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The Conversion of the Ethiopian Eunuch

April 30, 2012 | by The Hardest Question

Or the Conversion of Phillip?

by Nadia Bolz-Weber

New Testament Reading: Acts 8:26-40

For Sunday, May 6, 2012 Year B—Easter 5

In my childhood Bible, this text was titled “The Conversion of the...

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Vines and Branches?

April 30, 2012 | by The Hardest Question

I Want To Be a Sunflower For Jesus

by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Gospel Reading: John 15:1-8

For Sunday, May 6, 2012 Year B—Easter 5

I’m nothing if not independent. Reportedly my first sentence was “do it...

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Sheep? Sheeps? Sheepses?

April 22, 2012 | by The Hardest Question

Is there any such thing as individual salvation?

by Russell Rathbun

Gospel Reading: John 10:11-18

For Sunday, April 29, 2012—Easter 4

Jesus really talks a lot in John. And he repeats himself a lot....

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Omnipotent Coercion

April 15, 2012 | by The Hardest Question

Did God kill Jesus or not?

By Nanette Sawyer

New Testament Reading: Acts 3:12-21

For Sunday, April 22, 2012: Year B—Easter 3

After Jesus had ascended and the Holy Spirit had descended, the disciples...

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Really Alive

April 15, 2012 | by The Hardest Question

Or, do ghosts eat fish?

By Nanette Sawyer

Gospel Reading: Luke 24:36b-49

For Sunday, April 22, 2012: Year B—Easter 3

I believe the testimony of the disciples who experienced Jesus’s presence with...

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Churchtopia

April 9, 2012 | by The Hardest Question

Is the Appeal to a Golden Age a Recipe for Disaster?

by Rev. Mark Stenberg, Ph.D.

New Testament Reading: Acts 4:32-35

For Sunday, April 15, 2012: Year B—Easter 2

"There was not any needy person among...

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Honoring the Skeptic